An apparatus and method for processing a digital broadcast signal are provided. The method includes cutting off a noise frequency of a received digital broadcast signal and low-noise amplifying the noise cut-off signal, limiting an amplitude of the low-noise amplified signal spectrum to an amplitude of the digital broadcast signal spectrum, and cutting off a noise frequency of the amplitude limited signal spectrum and passing only a signal corresponding to a frequency band of the digital broadcast signal.
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1. A signal processing apparatus comprising: a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter for cutting off a noise frequency of a received signal; a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) for low-noise amplifying the SAW-filtered signal; a peak spectrum limiter for limiting an amplitude of an interference signal against the signal with respect to an amplitude of the low-noise amplified SAW-filtered signal; a notch filter for cutting off a noise frequency of the signal in which the amplitude of the interference signal is limited; and a Band Pass Filter (BPF) for passing a signal corresponding to a frequency band of the signal from the notch-filtered signal.
2. The signal processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the signal comprises a digital broadcast signal.
3. The signal processing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the interference signal comprises a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) signal.
4. The signal processing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the peak spectrum limiter comprises: a first BPF for passing both the digital broadcast signal and the interference signal; a second BPF for passing only the interference signal; and a circuit for obtaining a difference between a signal input from the first BPF and a signal input from the second BPF and for limiting the amplitude of the interference signal to the amplitude of the digital broadcast signal.
5. The signal processing apparatus of claim 2 , further comprising a tuner for tuning a frequency signal corresponding to a digital broadcasting program selected by a user from the band-pass-filtered signal.
6. A wireless terminal including a signal processing apparatus, the signal processing apparatus comprising: a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter for cutting off a noise frequency of a received signal; a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) for low-noise amplifying the SAW-filtered signal; a peak spectrum limiter for limiting an amplitude of an interference signal against the signal with respect to an amplitude of the low-noise amplified SAW-filtered signal; a notch filter for cutting off a noise frequency of the signal in which the amplitude of the interference signal is limited; and a Band Pass Filter (BPF) for passing a signal corresponding to a frequency band of the signal from the notch-filtered signal.
7. The wireless terminal of claim 6 , wherein the signal comprises a digital broadcast signal.
8. A signal processing method comprising: cutting off a noise frequency of a received signal and low-noise amplifying the noise frequency cut-off signal; limiting an amplitude of an interference signal against the signal with respect to the low-noise amplified signal; and cutting off a noise frequency of the signal in which the amplitude of the interference signal is limited, and passing a signal corresponding to a frequency band of the signal.
9. The signal processing method of claim 8 , wherein the signal comprises a digital broadcast signal.
10. The signal processing method of claim 9 , wherein the interference signal comprises a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) signal.
11. The signal processing method of claim 9 , wherein the limiting of the amplitude comprises: a first filtering comprising passing both the digital broadcast signal and the interference signal; a second filtering comprising passing only the interference signal; and obtaining a difference between two signals input from the first filtering and the second filtering and limiting the amplitude of the interference signal to the amplitude of the digital broadcast signal.
12. The signal processing method of claim 9 , further comprising tuning a frequency signal corresponding to a digital broadcasting program selected by a user from the band-pass-filtered signal.
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